How to spell technical

hear ittech·ni·cal/'tɛknɪkəl/adjectiveRules and real life

What it means: Relating to practical subjects or skills.

In a sentence: The new robot is very technical and can do many cool tricks.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as tecnical or tchnical.

Same family: technique, technology, technician, technically, technicality. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Technical” comes from the Greek root *tekhnē*, meaning “art, craft, or skill.” Over time, it shifted from the idea of skilled craftwork to describe specialized, often scientific or mechanical, knowledge and details.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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